[Research Progress and Prospect Analysis of Vascular Interventional Surgical Robot].

Vascular interventional surgery is an important means to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but the particularity of its working environment will bring greater radiation threat to doctors. Vascular interventional surgery robots can effectively improve the working environment of doctors and can provide more stable operations, improve the success rate of surgery. This study mainly introduces the current research status, key technologies, and future application of vascular interventional surgical robots.

[Design and Validation of Accuracy Assessment Tools and Algorithms for Optical Positioning System in Surgical Navigation].

The precision of optical positioning system is one of the most important factors which affects the precision of navigation guided surgery. In this study, an efficient and low-cost tool and its algorithm were proposed to evaluate the accuracy of optical positioning system based on the ablation scenario of liver cancer, and two validation experiments were designed. Experimental results show that the tool and its algorithm can evaluate the accuracy of the current positioning system accurately and efficiently.

Strategy for accurate liver intervention by an optical tracking system.

Image-guided navigation for radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors requires the accurate guidance of needle insertion into a tumor target. The main challenge of image-guided navigation for radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors is the occurrence of liver deformations caused by respiratory motion. This study reports a strategy of real-time automatic registration to track custom fiducial markers glued onto the surface of a patient's abdomen to find the respiratory phase, in which the static preoperative CT is performed.